Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state it is an army with banners.

If you look for truth you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin and in the end despair.

I will indulge my sorrows and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

I have sometimes been wildly despairingly acutely miserable racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

From the depth of need and despair people can work together can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional they are sceptical and mystical they are romantic and ironic they are cruel and tender and full of mirth and despair.

I learned a good deal about economics and about America from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem of despair.

Sad Patience too near neighbour to despair.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside it's a painful difficult search within.

Men die in despair while spirits die in ecstasy.

Love seeketh not itself to please nor for itself hath any care but for another gives its ease and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

For if there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children in the long overdue review of family law published this week fills me with horror and despair.

Boast is always a cry of despair except in the young it is a cry of hope.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make and that gives me hope.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.